Anton Schmitt (entrepreneur)

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Anton Schmitt (born January 28, 1896 in Fulda ; † June 28, 1965 ibid) was a German entrepreneur, local politician and author of several art history and local history books.

Life

Anton Schmitt was born in 1896 as the youngest child into a large family. His father was a wine wholesaler and his maternal grandfather was director of the humanistic grammar school in Fulda. He attended the municipal preschool in Fulda and then until 1912 the humanistic grammar school, which he left without a high school diploma with the secondary school leaving certificate. Following the family tradition, he took up a commercial profession, for which he completed an apprenticeship at the L. Pfeiffer bank (today Deutsche Bank ). Then he worked in his parents' wine wholesaler. He married on May 17, 1922.

In the First World War he volunteered as a war volunteer . He returned to Fulda on December 18, 1918 with the rank of lieutenant in the reserve. Together with his brother Eduard, he continued to run his parents' wine shop. The company was economically successful in the first half of the twenties, but was then affected by the effects of the global economic crisis at the end of the decade . Anton Schmitt then worked in the Fulda stock printing company , from March 13th as a member of the board . At the same time he began to be politically active. In 1930 he was elected chairman of the Kurhessische Zentrumspartei and ran for it in the following Reichstag elections. At the same time he was on the city ​​council of Fulda until all democratically elected representatives were dissolved in November 1933. In June 1934 he took over the guardianship of the two children of his deceased sister and took them into his household.

In the first years of National Socialism , he said he was severely limited in his professional activity. In 1933 the SA had destroyed the printing machines and many printed products of the Fuldaer Actiendruckerei and shortly afterwards the rulers withdrew the publishing house's right to publish. At the same time, first the Fuldaer Zeitung and later the Bonifatiusbote and other printed matter were banned. The publishing house was forcibly converted from an "anonymous" stock corporation to a limited partnership . During the Second World War , Anton Schmitt was drafted as captain of the reserve.

After the Second World War he worked again at the Parzeller publishing house, most recently as chairman of the shareholders' committee. From December 1945 he was a member of the municipal advisory committee of the American military administration and in the first free local elections in 1946 after twelve years of dictatorship he was elected to the city council as the top candidate on the CDU list. He was a member of parliament until 1952 and was active in local politics in various deputations until his death in 1965 .

In addition to books, in particular on Fulda, the cathedral and church art, Anton Schmitt has also published several essays in anthologies. Most of his publications appeared in the Fuldaer Geschichtsbl Blätter and in the Buchenbl Blätter , the local history supplement of the Fuldaer Zeitung.

From 1920 onwards, he volunteered for the Fulda History Association, where he was the second chairman from 1952 until his death. Because of his services as a local researcher and art historian, he was appointed a member of the Historical Commission for Hesse .

Schmitt died after a brief serious illness in June 1965 in the city hospital of Fulda.

Honors

  • 1965: City elder of Fulda
  • The Anton-Schmitt-Straße in Fulda named after him

Works

  • Guide through Fulda; with appendix: From Fulda's environment. Fuldaer Actiendr., Fulda 1935 (current edition: Anton Schmitt, Thomas Schmitt (editing): Führer durch Fulda. 16th edition, Parzeller, Fulda 2013, ISBN 978-3-7900-0329-1 table of contents )
  • The Fulda wall painting in the Middle Ages , Parzeller publishing house, Fulda, 1949
  • The Frauenberg near Fulda , Parzeller Verlag, Fulda, 1952
  • The Petersberg near Fulda, Church of the Holy Lioba , Verlag Parzeller, Fulda, 1954
  • The Fulda Cathedral , Parzeller Publishing House, Fulda, 4th edition 1949 (23rd edition in 1999)
    • The Cathedral of Fulda , translation 1965

literature

  • Cuno Raabe : Anton Schmitt † in Fuldaer Geschichtsverein: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , year 41 (1965), Parzeller publishing house, Fulda, obituary on pages 106-107 and extensive list of publications on pages 107-109

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f g h Cuno Raabe : Anton Schmitt † in Fuldaer Geschichtsverein: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , year 41 (1965), Verlag Parzeller, Fulda, pp. 106-107
personal data
SURNAME Schmitt, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, local politician and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Fulda
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1965
Place of death Fulda